A grand jury referral focusing on political meddling in the Justice Department’s civil rights division has been filed in the probe of U.S. attorney firings.
Patricia Wald, a lawyer internationally known for her work as a judge and on public interest projects, is this year’s recipient of the American Bar Association Medal, the ABA’s top…
Updated: Outsourcing legal work to India permits the U.S. government to intercept confidential documents, violating attorney-client privilege and the constitutional rights of those accused of wrongdoing, a Washington, D.C., area…
The U.S. currency system discriminates against vision-impaired individuals because paper bills of different denominations are the same size, shape and color, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit…
Many federal appeals judges appointed by President Ronald Reagan are now at the height of their power, issuing conservative opinions on hot-button issues like affirmative action, so-called partial-birth abortions and…
A former administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., who infamously filed suit against his dry cleaner for $67 million (he later reduced his claim to $54 million) is back in…
Convicted earlier this month in a case concerning her operation of a Washington, D.C., prostitution ring that catered to nation’s political elite, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman known as the…
Updated: President Bush’s use of executive privilege to prevent two top aides from testifying before Congress last year about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys is the most sweeping since…
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have sued the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to force regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Administration officials have three days to draft arguments opposing a federal magistrate’s suggestion that they should copy e-mails on the hard drives of executive office computers.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s apparent embrace of an individual right to bear arms during oral arguments yesterday leads to the next question: How far does the right…
A federal appeals court has ruled that judges can consider pleas by Guantanamo detainees that seek to block their transfers to countries where they may be tortured.
A federal appeals court has issued a stay blocking fines of up to $5,000 a day for a former USA Today reporter who did not reveal her sources for articles…
A former reporter for USA Today has filed an emergency appeal over what is being described as an unprecedented—and, press advocates say, overbroad—contempt-of-court fine that she must pay personally.
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